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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF MARCH 31, 2005 FBO #1221
SOURCES SOUGHT

A -- Sources Sought for Hybrid Iodine Chemical Laser Research & Development

Notice Date

3/29/2005
 

Notice Type

Sources Sought
 

NAICS

541710 — Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
 

Contracting Office

Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, ASC/TMK, 1350 Wyoming Blvd SE, Bldg 20200, Kirtland, NM, 87117
 

ZIP Code

87117
 

Solicitation Number

Reference-Number-FA8632-JTO-2005
 

Response Due

4/13/2005
 

Archive Date

3/29/2006
 

Description

DESCRIPTION: The Joint Technology Office?High Energy Laser division(JTO-HEL), through the executing agent: the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Airborne Laser (ABL) System Program Office, located at Kirtland Air Force Base, NM, is seeking to identify qualified private sector vendors capable of conducting research and development (R&D) on a hybrid Iodine chemical laser. The generator system for this laser is based on nitrogen trichloride (NCl3) chemical decomposition resulting in production of singlet delta. The intention of this system is to replace the wet chemistry in the chemical oxygen iodine laser (COIL) with all gas phase reactions. The NAICS code for this effort is 541710 and the small business size standard is 500 employees. The Government intends to execute a research and development contract with Directed Energy Solutions who has worked on this technology under a previous JTO contracted effort and anticipates that DES will be the only responsible source capable of successfully competing for a potential contract. As such, the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source for the proposed effort under the authority of Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302. The purpose of this synopsis consequently is to identify any other potential offerors with capability in this technology area. Interested vendors should possess demonstrated experience in high-energy laser R&D and have a reasonable capacity including appropriate facilities to accomplish the following tasks: 1) Characterize the NCl3 decomposition reaction; establishing rate of decomposition at multiple temperatures and flow rates. 2) Design, fabricate and test a scalable 10 mmole/s singlet delta generator and trapping system utilizing NCl3 for various flow rates based on the characterization data. REQUESTED INFORMATION: Interested and capable firms are asked to submit information (no more than 20 pages please) that provides the following: 1) Company information, to include a point of contact and address, type of company, size, security clearances, etc.; 2) description of experience in subject matter; and 3) description of the facilities and technical capabilities to perform hybrid Iodine chemical R&D and capability to conduct and fabricate the aforementioned tasks. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. If you have technical questions in regards to this requirement, contact the Contracting Officer Representatives (CORs) on this effort, Major Michael Turbyfill, at Michael.turbyfill@kirtland.af.mil or 505-846-7658 or Dr. Tom Jones, at Thomas.jones@kirtland.af.mil or 505-853-6861. Responses are due no later than 3:00 pm MDT, 13 Apr 05 and shall be electronically submitted to: Captain Dax Presuto at dax.presuto@kirtland.af.mil in an IBM PC-compatible program (.doc, .xls) or in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format. If you need to send a hard copy as well, please mail the package to: MDA/ALK, Attn: Capt Presuto, 1350 Wyoming Blvd SE, Bld 20200, Kirtland AFB, NM. 87117-5536. NOTE: Foreign owned/foreign controlled firms and foreign nationals are advised they may be precluded from proposing due to potential access to militarily sensitive information and should contact Capt Presuto if you are a foreign firm. DISCLAIMER: This request for information does not constitute a commitment, implied or otherwise, that a procurement action will be issued, nor will the government pay for the information solicited in this sources sought announcement. In addition, the information provided will be evaluated solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed effort on a full and open competition basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government.
 

Place of Performance

Address: MDA/ALK, 1350 Wyoming Blvd SE, Bldg 20200, Kirtland AFB, NM

Zip Code: 87117

Country: USA
 

Record

SN00777745-W 20050331/050329212004 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

FedBizOpps.gov Link to This Notice
(may not be valid after Archive Date)

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